@TotallyAbsurd yeah why would you keep someone around who is a detriment to yourself or whose relation to you provides no value to you? How would you connect to that person or establish a meaningful relationship? If you and another person have a superficial relationship that relationship doesn't benefit either of you and would come off as fake and existing only due to social obligation. All social interactions are a trade. That trade could be deep and meaningful, superficial, or a detriment to one or more parties involved. We much therefore evaluate our relationships and determine which ones bring us positive impacts and which are negative and adjust them as we deem them so. That's how we build healthy relationships or get trapped in self destructive patterns.